No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
BILL WALTONYou don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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